As the Deputy of Collections and Programs at the Library of Virginia, John Metz is responsible for overseeing the Library’s collections, public services, outreach activities, and educational programs. He coordinates agency activities in the areas of research, reference, archives, records management, special collections, circulation, collection management, publications, exhibitions, outreach, educational programs, library development, networking, and consulting.

He has more than 20 years of experience in historical research, education, collections management, and programming through his work as an archaeologist, historian, and architectural historian for museums and cultural institutions, including the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, the Bermuda National Trust, and the Pamplin Historical Park and the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier. Metz has written and lectured extensively on Southern history, architecture, and material culture. He earned an undergraduate degree in American history and anthropology from Washington & Lee University, an MA in anthropology from the College of William and Mary, and a PhD in American studies from Boston University. 

Metz is the author of numerous articles for scholarly journals and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He is the co-author with Louis A. Ferleger of Cultivating Success in the South: Farm Households in the Postbellum Era,publishedby Cambridge University Press (2014). Metz serves on the program committee for the Council of State Archivists and from 2009 to 2014 was a member of the State Review Board of the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.

Location

Richmond, Virginia

Disciplines

• African American Studies
• American Studies
• History
• Anthropology
• Archaeology
• Cultural Studies and Ethnic Studies
• Economics
• Information Science and Technology
• Library and Museum Studies

Affiliation

Library of Virginia

Website

https://bu.academia.edu/JohnMetz